Diseases of the Liver, Gall-Bladder and Bile-Ducts.

After a lapse of seventeen years, a new edition appears. It is the product of the experience of men who deservedly stand high in their profession and who are equipped for their task in physiology, pathology and clinical medicine. They reveal an intimate knowledge of the old and recent literature on the subject. There are adequate descriptions of the contributions of Mann of the Mayo Clinic, of the lessons drawn from liver extirpation, of the work of Graham and Cole, Whitaker and others on the function of the gallbladder as determined by the use of the dye tests, of the rôle of the reticulo-endothelial system in the production of bile, and of researches on cholesterol. Only such recent work as Boyden's on gallbladder contraction and Ivy's on cholecystikin are not mentioned. The authors appear to be rather lukewarm in their attitude toward gall-bladder drainage with the duodenal tube. It is